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Greymouth Star
New Zealand
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 3
Fire destroys classrooms
A large fire has destroyed
four classrooms and a library at
Paraparaumu school. The cause
of the fire is now being treated as
suspicious. Multiple members of
the public alerted the Fire Ser vice
to the blaze at Paraparaumu School,
on Ruapehu Street in Paraparaumu,
about 7.15pm last night. Fire
Ser vice central communications shift
manager Murray Dunbar said fire
ser vice specialist investigators would
continue to investigate the cause of
the fire today. “ It has been deemed
suspicious.” Mr Dunbar said a block,
which contained four classrooms and
a library, was totally destroyed in the
blaze. — APNZ
Person injured in
Otara house fire
One person was taken to hospital
in a critical condition after a
house fire in Otara last night. Six
appliances attended the fire, on
Clarkson Crescent in Otara, which
started around 12.30am. Fire
communications shift manager
Michael Upton said search and
rescue found one person inside the
property. They were transported by
ambulance to Middlemore Hospital
in a critical condition. Fire ser vices
were unsure as to the cause of
the fire, Mr Upton said. “ The fire
investigation team will be heading
out to have a look this morning,” he
said. — APNZ
Tongariro fall
A woman was airlifted from
Tongariro National Park after
seriously injuring her back in a fall.
Ambulance spokesman Norm Ngatai
said the woman in her early 20s was
picked up from the Iwikau medical
centre by the Taranaki Rescue
Helicopter about 2.40pm yesterday.
She was flown to Waikato Hospital
with serious back injuries. Mr Ngatai
said it was not known what the
woman had been doing or how she
fell. The Taranaki Rescue Helicopter
said it responded to
a job at the Whakapapa skifield
but gave no further details of the
incident. — APNZ
Orcas come into
Manukau harbour
Manukau residents had some
special visitors at the weekend, when
a large pod of orcas came into the
harbour. Justin Mayer, who lives
nearby, said residents were greeted by
the orcas at around 5pm on Saturday
afternoon. Around a dozen or so
had come into the Waiuku Channel
just south of Clarks Beach, he said.
Mr Mayer, who has lived in the area
for two years, said this was the first
time he had seen orcas right on his
doorstep. He said he believed they
were “fishing” for the kahawai and
stingrays which lived in the channel.
— APNZ
Peter’s ‘Wongs’
comment
shameful
— Devoy
Auckland
Winston Peters’ comment that
“two Wongs don’t make a right”
is “outdated rhetoric” that has
no place in the country ’s future,
Race Relations Commissioner
Dame Susan Devoy says.
The NZ First leader made the
comment at the party ’s campaign
launch yesterday when outlining
repeated his intention to crack
down on foreign ownership
of New Zealand land, saying
National’s claim that Labour
had done it as well was not
vindication.
“Just because your predecessor
did it too does not make your actions sensible.
As they say in Beijing, ‘two Wongs don’t make
a right’,” he said.
Dame Susan today said politicians making
fun of an entire race of people wasn’t new but it
was “disappointing and shameful New Zealand
political leaders are still doing it in 2014”.
“ We’re better than this and our political
leaders need to realise that,” Dame Susan said.
“We have come a long way as a nation in
terms of people treating each other with
respect but sadly we have some people
who just don’t get it and who don’t want to
get it.
“ Winston Peters needs to know he’s not
funny. His outdated rhetoric belongs in
New Zealand ’s past, it has no place in New
Zealand ’s future.”
Dame Susan said she supported comments
this morning by former Chinese Association
chairman Stephen Young that Mr Peters’ joke
belonged in the past.
Around a third of complaints received by the
Human Rights Commission related to racial
discrimination, Dame Susan said.
“We still have a lot of work to do in New
Zealand when it comes to treating one another
with respect. There is still, quite clearly, a lot of
work to do.”
Mr Peters defended the joke, saying it was
not racist. “It’s called humour. I know that in
Beijing they think it’s funny, and so do I.”
The comment also brought condemnation
from Act party leader Dr Jamie Whyte who
said the joke was not funny, made no sense and
Dame Susan should have resigned for failing
to condemn Mr Peters earlier.
Dr Whyte and Dame Susan have been
locked in a war of words and Dr Whyte called
on her to resign after she labelled
his comparison of Maori to pre-
revolutionary French aristocracy
“grotesque and inflammatory”.
Dr Whyte said Mr Peters’
joke was originally made by the
Australian politician Arthur
Calwell a keen defender of the
White Australia immigration
policy.
“ Mr Peters is an experienced
Australasian politician. He must
be aware of Calwell and his
xenophobic policies.
“ Repeating an even less amusing
version of his joke is shameful.”
Act ’s deputy leader Kenneth
Wang said the “weak racist joke” was not funny
to New Zealand ’s Chinese community.
“ Every time time Mr Peters stirs up anti-
Chinese feeling he gives racists in the
community encouragement to attack Chinese.
“ I have reports of Chinese women being
abused in the street, young louts going into
Chinese shops to abuse shop keepers,” Mr
Wang said.
“These statements by Mr Peters are very
hurtful to New Zealand’s Chinese community.
“ Mr Winston Peters is well aware that he is
playing the race card. My advice to my fellow
New Zealanders is it is time Mr Peters was
retired.”
Mr Wang said today there was no comparison
between Mr Peters’ joke and a billboard he
erected when campaigning for Botany in
September 2008 with the slogan; “vote Wang,
get Wang and Wong”.
“ I think that ’s totally unrelated,” he said. “Of
course there was no double-meaning.”
At the time, Mr Wang explained that
because National’s candidate Pansy Wong,
who was standing against him, had a “safe” list
position, she would be returned to Parliament
regardless of whether she won the electorate
or not.
The billboard prompted Ms Wong to
complain to the electoral commission. She said
by using her name on his billboards, Mr Wong
was effectively making her accountable for his
election spending.
Her complaint prompted Mr Wong to issue
a press release titled: “ Wong is Wrong, Says
Wang”.
“ I don’t think there is any comparison,” Mr
Wong said today. “Same words, but different
nature.” — APNZ
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Winston Peters
Cherie Taylor
of the Wairarapa Times
If Matt Charlton had taken
home a large spider he found
crawling through Pongaroa
forestry he would have “been
out on his ear so fast ” he would
not have had time to think
twice, his partner Renee Floyd
says.
The Tararua district earth
works business owner was
clearing forestry for a road at
Pongaroa with a worker when
he came across a very large
spider “bigger than his hand”
and flicked a photograph of it to
his very terrified partner.
She told the Times-Age it
was a good thing he had left the
spider, commonly known as a
tube web spider, right where he
found it.
A Te Papa arachnologist
has identified the spider as
one of 10 from the stanwellia
species which are similar to
the trapdoor spider, only they
burrow under the ground.
Ms Floyd readily admits to
loathing the creepy, crawly
arachnids.
“ I’m terrified of them.”
The photograph was enough
to scare her, she said.
“ I could barely look at it ... If
Matt had brought it home he’d
have been out so fast. It was just
horrible. I’d have been knocked
out if I’d seen it. It was bigger
than his hand ... I can’t believe
they exist that big in New
Zealand.”
On first seeing the large
spider crawling across pine
cones towards his backpack, Mr
Charlton thought it was a baby
possum: “He couldn’t believe it
was a spider.”
Arachnophobics be warned
— these spiders are common
to New Zealand and can
be found anywhere in the
country “from the Three Kings
Islands to Stewart Island”, said
arachnologist Phil Sirvid from
Te Papa.
“They are everywhere ... they
are not found anywhere else in
the world.”
However, it’s not often people
come across the open-mouthed
burrowing spiders, as they live
underground, he said.
“If you come across one,
be amazed, you have seen
something that is uncommonly
seen.”
While these spiders are not
as big as the Nelson Cave
spider they can have a body size
around 20mm and legs as long
as 15cm.
They are not poisonous but
can leave a good bite, Mr Sirvid
said.
“They are large enough to
bite but are not considered
dangerous to people.”
Worker unearths giant spider
PICTURE: Wairarapa Times
Matt Charlton discovered this large native spider from the stanwellia species, crawling across
pine cones as he cleared a road through bush at Pongaroa.
Auckland
The Labour Party’s health policy
for those aged over-65 receiving free
doctors’ visits and prescriptions will
put the country into the red, Prime
Minister John Key says.
At Labour’s campaign launch
yesterday, Mr Cunliffe unveiled the
party’s policy to fund free GP visits for
about 700,000 people aged over 65, as
well as pregnant women.
Labour would also maintain
National’s policy of extending free GP
visit to children aged under 13 from
next year.
Mr Key told Newstalk ZB today he
could see why the Labour Party’s colour
was red, “that ’s where they ’re going to
have the country”.
“ We’ve calculated their costing at, I
think, $16 billion now and we’re not
even five weeks before an election,” he
said.
“But the craziness of all this, if you
think it through, this is the political
party that is wanting to raise the age
of superannuation from 65 to 67 —
so they ’re saying that retired New
Zealanders or older New Zealanders
are going to have to work for two years
longer and then in the same breath, by
making them work two years longer,
give them a free visit to the doctor.
“ Well I think that comes back to
a point I’ve been making for a long
time, you know we want to give people
choices; the choice is they can retire at
65.”
Mr Cunliffe said last year more than
half a million New Zealanders needed
to see a doctor, but could not afford an
appointment. But Mr Key disputed that
figure.
“There’s been lots of sur veys done in
this area that indicate that that ’s not the
case,” he said.
“Of course there will be some people
that struggle — there’s also a lot of
older New Zealanders enrolled in very
low cost access practices, but I think we
would highly dispute [his figure].
Labour costed the expense of
extending free health care to the
over 65s at $120m a year, including
$100m for GP visits and $20m for free
prescriptions.
Mr Cunliffe said Labour was
committed to progressively reducing
health costs across the board, starting
with those with the highest health
needs.
In its policy, Labour said National’s
increase to prescription fees had added
an extra $15m to the amount older
people paid each year.
“It is unfair that the people with the
most medical need are also saddled
with the greatest health costs. ”
Mr Cunliffe said it would mean about
40% of New Zealanders, or 1.7 million
people, would be eligible for the free
healthcare.
He announced the policy of free
health care and dental visits for
pregnant women on Saturday —
expected to cost an extra $10.4m a
year.
Labour would also extend the Care
Plus programme so that an extra
250,000 people with serious or chronic
conditions would be eligible for an extra
four free doctors’ visits. That is expected
to cost about $90m a year.
A further $60m would be put in to
subsidise doctors’ in low income areas
to keep their fees low.
The National Government extended
it from children under six to children
under 13 in this year’s budget.
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Labour will provide free GP visits for over-65s
PICTURE: Getty Images
David Cunliffe officially launches Labour’s election campaign at the Viaduct Events Centre, in Auckland.
Brisbane
Police investigating what
happened before a young New
Zealander fell 14 storeys to her
death from an apartment balcony
say they have received vital new
information.
Warriena “Rrie” Wright was
on the Gold Coast for a friend’s
wedding, but yesterday her New
Zealand family were being
supported after her tragic death.
Ms Wright, 26, fell to her death
from a balcony about halfway up
the Avalon apartments in Surfers
Paradise about 2.30am on
Friday.
Neighbours reported hearing
several screams and what
sounded like an argument, and
a woman who saw her fall called
police.
They have interviewed the
unit ’s occupant, Gable Tostee,
28, but he was released without
charge and is now staying with
family. Ms Wright had been only
days away from returning home
when she arranged to meet Mr
Tostee, apparently using the
dating app Tinder.
Yesterday, police said they had
received numerous calls from
the public about the case, one of
which yielded vital information,
One News reported.
They had seized CCTV footage
from the Avalon building.
A resident told Channel 9 she
had heard screaming several
times before Ms Wright fell. “I
heard her screaming once and
then she stopped.
“Then she screamed again and
then she stopped again, and then
she screamed a third time and
after that I heard a bang.” Ms
Wright ’s mother, Beth Wright,
is a deacon at the Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Porirua.
Ms Wright’s sister Reza
Tagpuno had earlier said the
family were in the dark about
what had happened. It was
unclear whether they would
travel to Australia to collect her
body.
A spokeswoman for New
Zealand ’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade said they had
not been approached for consular
assistance or advice.
Several days ago, Ms Wright
was photographed holding a
giant python at Australia Zoo,
laughing as the reptile wrapped
itself around her neck.
A passionate animal rights
activist, she once wrote to
Parliament appealing for tougher
penalties for animal cruelty
offenders.
When police arrived at the
apartment, Mr Tostee was gone,
but he later handed himself in.
Regional crime co-ordinator
Detective Superintendent David
Hutchinson told Radio New
Zealand police were continuing
to gather evidence as part of the
investigation.
“ We have, as you are aware,
declared a crime scene at the unit
complex.” A forensic examination
of the unit was continuing
today and would carry on until
tomorrow, he said.
There was “no doubt ” that
police would speak again with
Mr Tostee.
“But the investigation at the
moment is in the evidence
gathering and information
gathering stage, so we have
numerous detectives working
on the case — we are gathering
a lot of information and we are
interviewing a lot of people.
“Once we work our way
through that process we’ ll sit
down and determine the next
direction for the investigation,”
Mr Hutchinson told RNZ.
Police had collected CCTV
footage of the area, but they were
still interested in speaking with
nearby residents who might have
other footage with the complex
in the background.
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Witness heard screams before
14-storey plunge
Rrie Wright
Top chef jailed for rape
Auckland
New Zealand’s heavy reliance
on overseas-trained doctors will
not stem the shortage of medical
specialists, and further shortages
are looming in the future, a new
report warns.
The Association of Salaried
Medical Specialists (ASMS)
report on the public hospital
specialist workforce, released
today, said 42% of all specialists
were overseas-trained — the
highest rate in the OECD.
But even with so many overseas
recruits, the report warned there
were not enough specialists to
cover current or future needs.
District health boards have
agreed to match Australia’s per
capita rate of specialist doctors
by 2021.
However, DHBs employed
an average of only 164 new
specialists in the three years to
March 2014 — far fewer than
the 260 a year needed to match
Australia.
Public hospitals would have a
shortage of 670 senior doctors
by 2021, the report said, despite
increased medical school intakes
starting to have an impact around
the same time.
The report said the heavy
reliance on overseas-trained
specialists left the health system
vulnerable to sudden changes
in international migration flows
driven by overseas policies.
Another concern was the high
turnover rate among overseas-
trained specialists.
Of those who first registered
in New Zealand in 2011, almost
40% were no longer practising in
the country a year later — more
than double the turnover rate five
years earlier.
The high turnover could have
“serious implications” for training
and efforts to develop clinical
leadership and innovative new
models of care, the report said.
It also noted the “revolving
door” of overseas-trained staff
was financially wasteful because
of the cost of recruitment.
ASMS executive director Ian
Powell said a “perfect storm”
of growing staff shortages and
an aging workforce would have
serious implications down the
track unless decisive action was
taken now.
Health Minister Tony Ryall
was dismissive of the report,
saying the association was “a
known critic of the Government ”
and its report was timed to
match Labour ’s campaign launch
yesterday. — APNZ
Report warns of looming medical specialist shortage
Auckland
A top chef who viciously beat and raped a
prostitute in an Auckland cemetery has been
jailed for nine years.
Viktor Mykhailov, 28, who was working at
Sky City, was arrested in April after police made
numerous appeals to the public for assistance
with the grisly case.
The Ukrainian man — who was assisted
today by an interpreter — was convicted of two
counts of sexual violation and one of aggravated
injuring after admitting his role in the March
15 incident.
In the Auckland District Court, Judge Philippa
Cunningham said the grave circumstances
of the case were extremely rare for someone
making their first court appearance.
“It’s most unusual to have a first offence that ’s
so serious,” Judge Cunningham said.
“ I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it
before.”
The court heard of the “huge” impact of the
attack on the 34-year-old woman.
Among her injuries, she sustained a fractured
eye socket which gave her sporadic loss of sight
and a broken nose while require rhinoplasty
surgery.
“S he is scared around people, has trust issues
and feels confused and frustrated,” said Crown
prosecutor Asishna Prasad.
Mykhailov addressed the court in Russian to
emphasise his remorse.
“I know it’ll be very hard for my victim to
move on and forget what happened,” he said.
“And it ’ll be even harder for me to
move and realise what I’ve done.” He
was ordered to pay $5000 to the victim.
— New Zealand Herald